that disposes of, or settles, a dispute, question, etc.; conclusive; decisive
dispositive in American English
(dɪˈspɑzɪtɪv)
adjective
involving or affecting disposition or settlement
a dispositive clue in a case of embezzlement
Word origin
[1475–85; dispose + -itive, on the model of positive]This word is first recorded in the period 1475–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: docket, export, ledger, nick, reduction-itive is a suffix occurring in substantives of Latin origin. Other words that use the affix-itive include: cognoscitive
Examples of 'dispositive' in a sentence
dispositive
In this first part, “dispositive records” are discussed.
Niyazi Çiçek 2013, 'The Classification of Republican Period Records in View of Modern Diplomatics: A Studyof Current Records I', Türk Kütüphaneciliğihttp://tk.org.tr/index.php/TK/article/view/254. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This dispositive, in the 2015/2016 coup, propagated hated against people fleeing the conservative standards.
Dolores Galindo, Felipe Cazeiro, Leonardo Lemos de Souza, Arthur Galvão Serra 2017, 'LGBTS AND GENDER BANNED? GENEALOGICAL NOTES ABOUT LAW PROJECTS IN BRAZIL', Psicologia em Estudohttp://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/PsicolEstud/article/view/33506. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Contracting parties often focus only on obligatory characters of the contract, relying on the legal text of dispositive provisions.
Anna Bandlerová, Jarmila Lazíková 2016, 'Land lease contract and prior right of lessee to concluding the new land lease contract- case of Slovakia', Juridical Tribunehttp://tribunajuridica.eu/arhiva/An6v22/23%20Bandlerova.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)